Oxymoron - Bermudan rigged
First - and successful - "sea trials" - Cergy, April 23 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dONj9XDwB9E
LOA 145cm, displacement 8,9 kg, mast height 170cm (Marconi rig), sail area 0,76m2
80 centimeter I.R model yacht
Based on the 1928 "Monotype du Modèle Yacht Club de Paris"
Designed by Victor Brix
"Oxymoron", gaff rigged
Sail plan based on a 1923 design for a full size 8 Metre by Victor Brix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCEwbs34y5U
I found the idea behind this project in a 1928 issue of "le Yacht" magazine, which featured a story about the Modèle Yacht Club de Paris and its new One Design, an 80 centimeter rated model yacht. Besides a lengthy story of the club, the magazine published the lines and sail plans and dimensions of the model.
The 80 centimeter was adopted as a class in France, especially around Paris, in 1907 as a result of the implementation of the International Rule for the full size racing yachts. The exact same formula is used, the result being 80 centimeters, instead of 8 Meters for a full size boat, for instance.
I started from there to scratch build a prototype hull, from which I made a mold, and from the mold I produced my first boat. I called the boat Oxymoron, because it sounds Greek and glorious, and because the same hull can be gaff or Bermudan rigged.
Since it is an "80 centimeter I.R" I added a dot in front of the 8 Meter Class insigna and made it the series' symbol. .
Since Oxymore has proven very pleasant in both Marconi and gaffer versions, I have built three more hulls. Two of them are gaff rigged, with deck layouts taken from two German 8 Meter built around 1913: Dolli and Nord West. NordWest has been launched in July 2010, and sailing against a Bermudan rigged Oxymoron has proven more stable in a breeze, especially when reaching, when Oxymoron tends to embark into a periodic roll.
Nordwest and Oxymoron
I love the Meter classes and personnally own one from the smallest class, a 5 Meter designed in 1943 by Knud Reimers, which I hope to relaunch this summer. I have also built a model 6 Meter called Gudrun Elvira II, designed in 1932 by Sam O'Berge.
Redrawn sailplan
- Marconi
Sea (reservoir?) trials -
Cergy April 2010
Gaff rig sailplan
for an 8 Meter by
Victor Brix, 1923, that served as the inspiration for the gaff rigged version of
my 80cm.
8 Meter Nord-West 1911
8 Meter Dolli 1910
My Email address: patrickATclassicmodelyachts.com
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